I have no idea how this one will do, but I'm sure nobody else will be fool enough to try the same thing. I blatantly ignored scalvert's excellent advice to not use toys in a challenge, but I don't think this is what he had in mind. I contemplated entering this in the motion panning challenge, but it is really background panning, not motion panning.
This is a 1 1/2 second exposure, lit with a 60 watt bulb, and everything is moving except the car bodies and the camera.
The background is a small part of a six shot panorama I made of a street near my house and autostitched together. It is printed, mounted on a piece of foam core, and sitting on a music stand. The hardest part of this was doing the math to figure out how big to print. Luckily, part of the panorama has cars in it, so I could compare the toy cars to the cars in the picture.
The foreground is a piece of black foam core. This didn't look very good, so I cropped out as much as possible. During the exposure, the camera was on a tripod, and I was standing to the side, moving both the background and foreground.
The cars are matchbox cars (Hot Wheels, actually) each mounted on top of a domino left over from the pattern challenge, using earthquake putty. The blue putty showed up in the pic, so I had to paint the putty black with a magic marker.
The wheels of the cars have black thread taped to them, wrapped around several times. During the exposure, a friend pulled the threads to spin the wheels.
Very little post processing. Convert from raw, levels, saturation, crop, image size, neatimage, sharpen.
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You could have easily been in Panning also, but this is great. Love the detail on the Matchbox cars and like what you did with the background. One of my highest rated for the challenge. Terrific.
Nicely done ... would have made for a good 'Panning Motion' entry as well (probably more creative than most entries). All you need are little drivers! ;-) My only critique is the color is a bit washed (background lacks contrast, though that may be inherent) and I wish there wasn't that cut-off along the bottom (which actually kinda works here). *7*
Oooh, you got the wheels spinning. Nice attention to detail. I also like how the silver car is behind the gold one, as the gold one matches the tones of the rest of the image more.
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